Tom Shakespeare

Flying blind: how Trump’s climate censorship threatens global disaster defences Datasets have been removed, federal websites scrubbed and thousands of Noaa staff purged. Experts warn disaster defences are at risk

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Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Are you interested in advancing peace and disarmament through the UN? Are you based in Geneva or open to re-locating to work there? @quakerunoffice.bsky.social are hiring a Peace and Disarmament Representative. Find out more at quno.org/opportunities and apply before 13:00 CET Monday 3 November.

Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.

THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!

Dick Van Dyke and the Vantastix surprise a crowd at Denny's in Santa Monica. - YouTube share.google/wi7MUD0h51NE...

Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver The building was the family home of William Shakespeare's daughter Susanna Hall and her husband, physician John Hall.

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I live down Pegasus Place, but it's more of a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

John Cusack says message from Chicago to Trump is: ‘Go to hell!’

#NoKings 👑

It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.

From the organization that kettled protesters and beat the shit out of people and even drove their cars into protesters during the BLM protests this is genuinely shocking. Including them making a post about first amendment rights.

Ten years old! Sadly, this body is nearly 60 years old, and both it & the planet are protesting at all the work travel.

Portland, Oregon. #NoKings

Achtung! It's an RGK chair, made in Staffordshire.

It has already been to 7 African nations, Australia, North America, 6 European nations... thanks to all the punctual access assistants.

That is quite another story!

Picture of wheelchair with slogan "this machine kills fascists" based on Woody Guthrie's guitar sign.

This machine kills fascists.

No Kings protests outside of the US

No Kings protests outside of the US were massive today. 👍🔥

"No Kings" protest in Jersey City

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

Warren: The only movement these Republicans can manage is bowing down to Trump. When you ask them about today, they claim the No Kings Rally is anti-American. They’re wrong. Hundreds of thousands of people protesting peacefully for what they believe in—that is deeply American. That is patriotism.

Woman holding a sign reading: First they came for the immigrants and I spoke up because I know the rest of the god damn poem

Here is the alt text version. Sorry I didn't post it the first time

No Kings! Just Crumpets!

We met Baroness Jane Campbell & @simonminty.bsky.social at Tate Britain visiting Lee Miller show: delightful surprise!

No Kings protests all over the world: List of countries standing in solidarity with the U.S. on Oct. 18 No Kings 2.0 is set to take place on 18 October. Once again there are rallies planned in countries around the globe in solidarity with the US protests.

Wonderful! There are #NoKings demonstrations all over the world. This article gives an overview of all protests that are organised in solidarity with the US.

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Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,” twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.

I am so opposed to gambling that I won't buy raffle tickets for good causes: you should not profit from another's loss.

Riba Stirling Prize 2025: Appleby Blue Almshouse named Britain's best new building Appleby Blue Almshouse in London wins the Royal Institute of British Architects' Stirling Prize.

Hooray, this sounds great: BBC News - Riba Stirling Prize 2025: Appleby Blue Almshouse named Britain's best new building - BBC News
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The media seems to forget
to mention that when Tel Aviv Maccabi fans went to Amsterdam, there were reports they chanted “we will f**k the arabs” and ““There are no schools in Gaza because there are no children left.” They also pulled down Palestinian flags. They were met with attacks from locals.

„This is a national security issue!“ says Dame Angela McLean, the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, about the collapse risk of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre.
Interesting discussion on Forecasting Arctic Tipping Points - Building an Early Warning System for Everyone, at #ArcticCircle.